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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2007
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8.00 am
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Registration Desk open
Conference Office open
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Convention Centre
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Pre-Conference meetings [see website]
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4.00 pm
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Poster Group 1 on display
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4.00 pm
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DELEGATES ASSEMBLE in QE2 Square
First session
begins
Initiation of Smoking Ceremony
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QE2
Square
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4.15 pm
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Smoking Ceremony begins
Welcome to country
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QE2 Square
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4.40 pm
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Didgeredoo and dancers invite delegates to move
to the Theatre
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4.50 pm
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MC, Julie McCrossin, introduces herself and
welcomes delegates
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Theatre
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4.52 pm
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Welcome to Albury City
Councillor Amanda Duncan-Strelec, Mayor of Albury
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4.55 pm
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Formal Opening and KEYNOTE 1
Her Excellency Marie Bashir, NSW
Governor
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5.10 pm
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Keynote Address
Hon Tony Abbott, Federal Minister for
Health
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5.30 pm
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Keynote Address
Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Local Government, Sport, Recreation and Health
Promotion
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5.50 pm
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KEYNOTE 2
Tony McMichael, Professor and Director, National Centre for
Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
Climate change, prolonged drought conditions and health: implications
for rural Australia
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Images of Albury–Wodonga
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6.15 pm
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Performance—Fruit Bats
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6.30 pm
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MC,
Julie McCrossin
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6.30 pm – 7.30 pm
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WELCOME RECEPTION—sponsored
by the Farm Health and Safety Joint Research Venture, managed by the Rural
Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)
Sussan Ley, Parliamentary
Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, will launch RIRDC’s “Effective Use
of the Internet—keeping professionals working in rural Australia”
Entertainment with Per Westman
Performance—Jane Rayner (flute) and Peter Lynch (guitar)
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7.30pm
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friends of
the Alliance
meet the students
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QE2
Square
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THURSDAY 8 MARCH 2007
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8.00 am
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Registration Desk open
Conference Office open
Exhibition open
Poster Group 1 on display
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Convention Centre
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8.00 am
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Workshop for
Conference Choir with Jane and James (all welcome)
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QE2
Square
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MC, Julie McCrossin
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8.20 am
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Performance—Voices of the Murray—Bohdan
Krowicky (conductor) and Robyn Krowicky (accompanist)
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Theatre
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8.35 am
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MC, Julie McCrossin: welcomes
delegates; housekeeping and handbook. Introduction of Conference Convenor,
Sue McAlpin, and NRHA Chairperson, John Wakerman
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8.40 am
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Images—looking back on previous Conferences
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SECTION 1: Lessons from
the past
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8.45 am
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KEYNOTE 3
Steve Clark
New agendas and old: an appraisal of previous Conference themes and
recommendations
First call on Conference recommendations
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Theatre
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9.05 am
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Audience questions and
comments facilitated by MC
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9.15 am
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Plenary performance—Wild Things Band and Wild Choir
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9.25 am
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KEYNOTE 4
Rhonda Galbally, CEO, Our Community
Community cohesion, resilience and
health development in regional Australia
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9.45 am
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KEYNOTE 5
John Menadue, Chair, New Matilda
The
importance of universal health care
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10.05 am
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Audience questions and
comments facilitated by MC
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10.15 am
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MC: preparing for first
concurrent session
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10.25 am
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Book
Launch—Australia's Rural, Remote
and Indigenous Health: A social justice perspective, Janie Dade Smith
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10.30 am
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MORNING
TEA
Exhibition and networking
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11.15 am –
12.25 pm
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Concurrent Session A
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A1 Community resilience
Chair: Owen Allen, SARRAH
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Theatre
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11.15 Identifying models of community resilience that enhance
psychological wellness: a rural study
Cath Rogers-Clark, Desley Hegney, Helen Ross, Peter Baker, Christine
King, Liz Buikstra, Susanne Pearce, Kath McLaughlin, Bronwyn McCullough,
Jim Weir, Lynette Pirie
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11.40
The Impacts of the Lost Creek Fire on Community Resiliency
Judith Kulig, Bill Reimer, Ivan Townshend, Dana Edge, Katja Neves-Gracas,
Nancy Lightfoot
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12.05
Conflict and contradiction
David Kidd
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A2 ‘Joining
Together’ Aboriginal people
Chair: Romlie Mokak, AIDA
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Theatrette
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11.15 Is there a blueprint for replicating general practice
entities in rural Australia?
Jenny May
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11.40 Lurrtjurringa Lan Program—Joining Together
Terry Keating
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12.05 Murri first aid: how working in partnership can save lives
Amy Creighton, Garry Creighton
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A3 Food safety; water safety
Chair: Beth Rogers, APA
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St
David’s Hall
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11.15 Freight and chronic disease in remote Indigenous
communities—the story of an apple
from tree to table
Ian Lovell
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11.40 Q4: Live Outside the Box—raising
awareness of obesity in the school environment
Karla Calleja
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12.05 Water Safety in the Bush: a community development
initiative providing water safety and awareness instruction to remote farms
and stations
Nicole Beattie
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A4 Anecdotes and evidence
Chair: Pauline Wardle, Frontier Services
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The
Albury Club
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11.15 Refugee resettlement in
regional Australia
Geraldine Duncan
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11.40 Postcards from the people: a dialogue model for community
needs assessment
Peter Orpin
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12.05 Cobram Hospital—the rural advantage
Sonya
Moncrieff
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A5 Women’s health—updates from the
longitudinal study
Chair: Jenny May, RDAA
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St
Matthew’s Hall
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11.15 Health care for women with diabetes living in rural areas
Anne Young, Julie Byles, Julia Lowe, Xenia Dolja-Gore
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11.40 Driving myself: main forms of transport among older women
in rural and remote Australia
Julie Byles, Richard Gibson, Lynne Parkinson, Annette Dobson
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12.05 Access to health services for mid-aged women in rural
Australia: evidence of improvement?
Anne Young, Xenia Dolja-Gore
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A6 Arts-in-health
Chair: Chris Pidd, Murray
Arts
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St David’s
Chapel
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11.15 I found my thrill on
Pyramid Hill—the Festival for Healthy Living in a rural setting
Harry
Gelber, Jenny
Mitchell, with Mental Health Ambassadors from Pyramid Hill College and
St Patrick’s Primary School
(extended session)
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12.05 How the arts in health care can make a difference in rural
and remote regions in Australia
Margret Meagher
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A7 Cancer: Service delivery issues
Co-Chairs: David Goldstein, COSA and John
Wakerman, NRHA
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Albury
Council Chambers
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11.15 Epidemiology of cancer in Indigenous Australians:
implications for service delivery
David Roder
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11.32 Rural disadvantage in cancer care: evidence and outcome in
New South Wales
Bruce Armstrong
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11.49 Mapping rural and regional oncology services
Craig
Underhill,
Rebecca Bartel, David Goldstein, Paul Grogan
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12.06 Training for Indigenous health workers—lessons from a
national breast cancer training workshop – ABSTRACT ONLY
Thea Kremser,
Jane Francis, Helen Zorbas
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A8 Education for health
Chair: Liz Drew, ARNM
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Legacy
House
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11.15 The RIPENing: advancing rural interprofessional education
in Australia
Nick Stone, Tony Smith
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11.40 A Will and a Way—saving millions and lives
Louise Lawler
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12.05 Recruitment and retention of rural nurses and allied health
professionals
Stanford Harrison
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11.15 am –
12.25 pm
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A9 Elective
workshop [up to
30 people]
Delegates
will need to pre-register on-line for this workshop
Managing chronic
kidney disease in regional and remote Australia
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Managing
chronic kidney disease across the continuum: is it achievable in regional
and remote Australia?
Alan Cass, Jeannie Devitt, Joan Cunningham, Kate
Anderson, Cilla Preece, Paul Snelling, Josette Eris, Erica Kneipp,
Sarah Brown, Chris Fielding
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Diabetes
and renal disease: the new epidemic
Graham Philp
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Card
Room, Albury Club
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12.25 pm
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Session
concludes
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12.30 pm
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LUNCH
Exhibition and networking
Note: A special lunch for BMP students will be held at the Quality
on Olive.
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12.55pm
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World Premiere—Rural
Health Education Foundation documentary film on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (26 minutes)
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Theatre
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1.30 pm
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MC, Julie McCrossin
Performance—Chopped Liver
A show about Hepatitis C and the Indigenous community
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Theatre
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1.45 pm
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MC, Julie
McCrossin: housekeeping and second call
on Conference recommendations
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1.50 pm
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Romlie Mokak, AIDA. Report from the pre-conference workshop on Indigenous health:
Equal health within a generation—what
rural action?
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SECTION 2: Working across
borders for effective services
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2.00 pm
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KEYNOTE 6
Robert Tickner, Secretary General CEO, Australian Red Cross
New directions for Australian Red Cross: An organisation with a history
in the bush
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Theatre
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2.20 pm
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Audience questions and
comments facilitated by MC
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2.30 pm
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KEYNOTE 7
Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing
Policies and programs across internal
borders
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2.50 pm
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Audience questions and
comments facilitated by MC
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3.00 pm
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KEYNOTE 8
Kerry Strauch, Manager, Border Cancer Collaboration, Upper Hume
Community Health Service and Nicki Melville
Cancer support across borders—the Border Cancer Care Co-ordination
Project
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3.20 pm
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Audience questions and
comments facilitated by MC
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3.30pm
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MC, Julie McCrossin:
housekeeping
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3.35 pm
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Official opening of the Conference
Exhibition—Philip Davies
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3.40 pm
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AFTERNOON TEA
Exhibition and networking
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4.10 pm –
5.45 pm
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Concurrent Session B
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B1 Communities
in action
Chair: Michael Jonas, RDN
Session sponsored by the NSW Department of State and Regional
Development
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Theatre
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